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(b) is golden. In a way, it's like ignoring a girl that I like, while making myself discernibly more desirable.
Thanks.
The startup's customers are from among many verticals. Acquiring those customers is why I need the sales team. I can work to acquire a few myself within a specific vertical. To service the acquired customers is where the monetary expense is required (think PPC ads that are later billed to the customers, for example).
Of course, I can do one at a time, but why? That's the point of me wanting to seek funding - to scale quickly...to go after multiple companies in multiple cities within multiple industries.
You'd consider canning the _competent_ VP/Engineer, adding insult to injury?
C'mon.